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by xref 6y ago
I thought they had to sell YT because they were starting to get sued into the ground because it was mainly hosting SNL and South Park clips at the time
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by xref 6y ago
I watch/read a lot of history and I am always curious, if you traveled back in time how would you treat gout? Without medications to manage uric acid what would you do for Ben Franklin, DaVinci, Michelangelo or Charlemagne? Have them l
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by xref 6y ago
> Here's an accurate if unsparing description of the US: "a crisis-wracked, oil-rich, nuclear-armed country in which an aging would-be dictator for life tries to stave off replacement by his popular successor amid large protest
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by xref 6y ago
Reminds me of companies like Evernote where you can see “hey, there’s a nice business in there”...but it’s not gonna 10x a VCs investment.
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Couldn’t immediately find the reference on DDG, anyone have a link with more info?
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by xref 6y ago
One caveat is this is truly only for photos, videos are excluded unless you choose one of the paid plans
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by xref 6y ago
You’re moving the goalposts all over the place but sure, Trump/Republicans made some inroads with PoC in certain areas (Miami-dade, south Texas) and lost it elsewhere (Arizona) but your own links don’t describe it as “historic”: > E
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by xref 6y ago
You keep posting the same link and repeating the same comments. Let’s check the top results at DDG: Debunked once: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/rumor-alert-biden-michigan... Debunked twice: https://www.
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by xref 6y ago
For context this was effectively the end of the post civil war reconstruction era. > By 1905, nearly all black men were effectively disenfranchised by state legislatures in every Southern state. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by xref 6y ago
Who is the “mob” in this? The citizen majority?
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by xref 6y ago
You’ve gotten some downvotes so figure I’d paste the actual text of the first amendment here so people know exactly what you’re referring to: > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free e
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by xref 6y ago
From your posts in this thread it’s obvious you’re not commenting in good faith, and again here have made a strawman. There’s nobody here arguing against open debate. The Intercept decided an article fell below their journalistic standards
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by xref 6y ago
Definitely going to rewatch The Lives of Others after browsing all those Stasi bugs. Also I just learned the star of that film, Ulrich Mühe, practically lived the life of the film’s protagonist: > After German reunification, Mühe alleged
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by xref 6y ago
The parent specifically says: > “even if it would be a stable, competitive, profit-generating product if it were its own company, they just bin it because it doesn't even register on their enormous operating profit”
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by xref 6y ago
Lots wrong here: > we have vaccine for (almost) every sickness that can put a non-immunodepressed down if the immune response is too late The 40-60% effectiveness of annual flu shots would beg to differ. And more often it is your immune
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by xref 6y ago
IANAL but seems like you could get a case against you thrown out if it was found facial recognition was involved in your identification.
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by xref 6y ago
Everyone has anecdotes, I’m a DDG user and the results are nearly always worse/more stale than I got before ditching google two years ago (still have to !g a lot) but hey, at least it’s not google all the time. Google having a decade o
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by xref 6y ago
Ah the classic ivory tower argument where some “other class” of engineers are universally inept, but not “my class!” You can write the same screed full of generalizations from the perspective of any job title: a devops person would lament t
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by xref 6y ago
“Collective mob”, aka the majority of the population? Remember the government was setup as a republic to ensure a minority of the population, landowning white males, retained power regardless of demographics. By-and-large people of color, t
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by xref 6y ago
> Bell’s complaint alleges he took the photograph in March 2000. However, the defense noted the skyline photo shows green grass and a working fountain. The defense argued that grass in Indianapolis is rarely green in March, and that reco
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by xref 6y ago
You’re conflating freedom of speech with freedom from consequences.
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The TPP was also a deeeeeee-saster, it amounted to a mega-corp giveaway and one of the most egregious things to the HN crowd at the time was imposing America’s draconian copyright laws on all signatory countries. Frankly I was surprised Oba
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by xref 6y ago
US interests overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom in 1893, and personally I believe a day of national reckoning over that is still inevitable. However people using it to justify Russia annexing Crimea in 2014 strains credulity.
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It is a great thing to see, California is described as some sort of lefty-socialist-liberal bastion today but like you said it was only 12 years ago they (unconstitutionally) voted in a ban on gay marriage https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by xref 6y ago
Is there a reason you chose not to use ACLs? We did enable them, but it feels like it is causing more headaches than any security benefit it might provide...
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Seems like HN is doing something that’s breaking the direct linking to that Wikipedia page. Have to click through to the suggested page to get to the true article
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My primary concern was the 6500 gallons of drilling fluid abandoned in the hole as with normal coastal erosion it ain’t gonna stay there, but it appears largely non-toxic? From research online it contains bentonite clay which is fine, but a
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by xref 6y ago
That’s just empty whataboutism, a disingenuous form of discussion used to excuse atrocities. “Why are you singling out slavery in America, African tribes had slaves too!”
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Is calling for the release of a million Uyghurs from re-education camps an “arbitrary humanitarian reason”?
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Careful with these patch releases as they often introduce breaking changes. Java update 11.0.6 recently broke all self-signed certs because they introduced new behavior, and required a config change to enable the old behavior. Test before y

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